this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh no. At least there's no way for everyone in the world to make a backup before it goes dark...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is the great thing about FOSS. Someone else will just take the code and reupload it. If they want it removed from GitHub, they can deal with Microsoft. At which point it'll just be re-uploaded again. There's nothing illegal about it.

So Haier suffers the Streisand effect and the people who want to simply continue using it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Right… they claim hosting it is a violation of their TOS, but I’m not one of their customers. How can I violate their TOS if I don’t even use their product.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It would be a shame if 697 people and counting were to fork the project, it would be a real pain to serve each one of them with takedown notices.